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Nothing wrong with being a Luddite
When the technology really gets beyond human comprehension and people are just guessing and throwing shit at the wall (or billions and billions of dollars), I think it's a sensible position to be a luddite.
It was always about worker's rights anyways:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
It was about making sure that as mechanization resulted in a lower need for labor, that workers compensation remained steady, and they worked less hours.
People hating luddites is just the result of centuries old propaganda from the wealthy
There literally is. It's a mentality that prevents vaccine adoption rates and such. That said, being slow to adopt a technology like Boomers to the Internet is okay. Not adopting a technology because it has no inherent value and is being foisted on us by the ruling class is solid bro behavior.
Tell me you don't know who the Luddites were without telling me you don't know who the Luddites were.
Oh I didn't realize that everyone uses the term literally. I thought it had expanded to mean a general lack of adoption of change. My bad I guess.
The luddites were skilled labor rioting against capital using machines to replace them with unskilled low wage labor